ALL ATHLETES OF ANY CITIZENSHIP ARE WELCOME TO COMPETE. TRIALS NOT REQUIRED.

The athletes from the following countries Brazil, France, Portugal, Canada and Japan must be affiliated with their countries national Brazilian jiu jitsu federation, and must bring federation ID at the event before their fights, otherwise you will not be able to compete.

Any registration of athletes from Portugal are under the Portuguese Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation approval.

Athletes born in 1965 and years before
Fight time: blue/purple/brown/blackbelts – 5 minutes

EUROPEAN OPEN JIU-JITSU NOVICE CHAMPIONSHIP 2011

On this event the points will be tallied separately from the main tournament. The points breakdown is as follows: First place- 9 points, Second place- 3 points, and Third place – 1 point. The event is for white belts only, MALE: ADULT, MASTER or SENIOR 1, and FEMALE: ADULT, and is intended to give budding competitors experience in the largest European tournament alongside many of the great athletes in sport jiu-jitsu. There is no open class.

Adults

The division is open for everyone above 18 years.
Fight time: 5 minutes

Masters (30 – 35 years)

Fight time: 5 minutes

Senior 1 (36 years and above)

Fight time: 5 minutes

Women adult

There will be six weight divisions (check weight list)
Fight time: 5 minutes

The head coach of an academy’s competition team shall be granted the right to change a competitor’s registration information. Such changes are limited to: weight division, competitor’s name/nickname, academy affiliation and those member’s of the academy that will be competing in the open weight division.

Open Class Registration

Junior male and female: blue belts

To sign up for juvenile open class male and female, just check the box during your online registration. Open class available for middle weight or above.

To sign up for adult open class female, just check the box during your online registration.

Adult male: blue, purple and brown belts

Athletes who placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd in their weight divisions are eligible to register for the Open Class bracket. The athletes willing to register in the open class should register at the event administration table after having his weight division medal awarded, according to the registration schedule . No registrations will be accepted after the registration closing time schedule.

Adult male: black belts

Black belts registered in the event are eligible to participate in the black belt open class division bracket.

The black belt athletes willing to participate in the open class division must apply their registration at the event administration table according to the event schedule.

No registrations will be accepted after the event registration closing time schedule.

Blue, purple, brown and black belts master and senior 1, 2 and 3:

To sign up open class, just check the box during your online registration.

REGISTRATION CHECK DAY

ALL ATHLETES MUST CHECK THEIR REGISTRATION INFORMATION ON THE REGISTRATION CHECK DAY – JANUARY 24th ON OUR WEBSITE WWW.IBJJF.COM

Corrections by e-mail:
The athletes can send e-mail with changes on the registration, by sending an email to ibjjf@ibjjf.com with the subject ‘EUROPEAN CORRECTION’. The deadline is January 22th – 5PM – Lisbon time.

Registration Check day:
The athletes must make sure that their information is correct by checking the website on the registration list for their weight, belt, academy, age division, and name information. If there are any mistakes on the information (ei. typing mistakes by IBJJF) please send an email to ibjjf@ibjjf.com. (January 24th, 5PM – Lisbon time) .

The brackets will be released before the tournament . On wednesday, January 26th, the brackets will be available online at our website.

After the registration check day, no changes will be made and no refunds will be given.

During the tournament, any mistakes on the brackets that were not correct previous to registration check day will lead to immediate disqualification .

8th NATIONAL TEAMS MATCH

The 8th national teams macth will be held on january 29th and/or 30th 2010, together with the 8th European Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship.

The macthes will be between adult blue, purple, brown and black belt teams, male only, each country are allowed 1 team per each weight division.

Each team is composed of 5 competitors, the first team to reach 3 victories will win the round. Each team must have a coach to write down the schedule that the fighters will follow.

There will be two weight divisions:

– Till 76 kg (gi On)

– Over 76 kg (gi On)

To participate in this event the athlete should sign-up the European Jiu-Jitsu Open Championship.

WEIGH INS

Before his/her first fight, the athlete will check his/her weight with the Gi. There is only one opportunity to check the weight. If the competitor does not make his/her weight,they will beimmediately disqualified. Please make sure that you are in the correct weight division. You can not change divisions ,if you do not make your designated division. No changes will be accepted in the tournament day, no refund.
All athletes should fight and weigh-in with tradicional weave fabric gi only (single, double or golden). All blue, all white or all black. No other kind of gi is allowed.

Each academy can only have two athletes in the same division (of age/weight/belt). If your academy has problems regarding the number of athletes in each division, please send an e-mail to IBJJF ibjjf@ibjjf.com.

Depending on the number of athletes in the tournament, some classes may not have an absolute division.

Before each fight, athletes will be asked to show their Ids to the officials. Make sure you have it at hand.

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